T.I. Covers VIBE (December-January ’11); Talks Drug Habit & Eminem

[Elano]

Right before Tip reported back to prison, he sat down with Erik Parker to talk about his drug habit, conversing with Eminem about his addiction & more.

    How did you get a drug habit?

    I had a lot of work done to my teeth. Oral surgery, extractions, six, seven, eight root canals. Between January to February. As soon as I got out, I had a lot of stuff done. In the joint, you eat shit that is unhealthy for you. I had fillings that fell out and stuff that had to get dealt with. Of course for the pain they gave me oxycontin and hydrocodone. And, mind you, on October 13, 2007, I had cut off everything―weed, alcohol. Then I get these pills and I start taking them for the pain at first. And then I’m like, Wait―this shit makes me feel good. And it’s legal. After the pain went away, I kept taking it. I had like five, six prescriptions. So I had, like 80 pills. Everybody else might have a drink or smoke a blunt, I took a pain pill. Times when I had 18, 20-hour days, I’d take a pain pill. And eventually I developed―I guess―the beginning stages of dependence.

    Have you talked to Eminem about addiction?

    Sure. We got a record together, and we talked a lot. I asked him how he knew he was an addict. Basically if you put yourself in harm’s way… if you risk that, you’ve got to assume that there is something fundamentally wrong with your thought process.

[doggfather]

looks interesting, gonna check the interwiev asap

[K.Dub]

I wanna see those Keri Hilson bad girl pictures!

[MrJas]

I wanna see elano's family caught in a bush fire

[thugged out]

why do people compare ti to pac?

[GangstaBoogy]

    How did you get a drug habit?

    I had a lot of work done to my teeth. Oral surgery, extractions, six, seven, eight root canals. Between January to February. As soon as I got out, I had a lot of stuff done. In the joint, you eat shit that is unhealthy for you. I had fillings that fell out and stuff that had to get dealt with. Of course for the pain they gave me oxycontin and hydrocodone. And, mind you, on October 13, 2007, I had cut off everything―weed, alcohol. Then I get these pills and I start taking them for the pain at first. And then I’m like, Wait―this shit makes me feel good. And it’s legal. After the pain went away, I kept taking it. I had like five, six prescriptions. So I had, like 80 pills. Everybody else might have a drink or smoke a blunt, I took a pain pill. Times when I had 18, 20-hour days, I’d take a pain pill. And eventually I developed―I guess―the beginning stages of dependence.

Yeah like an assortment of ding-a-lings.

[Black Excellence]

why do people compare ti to pac?

i don't know t.i. way realer. see how he had all them hammers pac's people shoulda been on that instead of bitching about flex.

[thugged out]

tip is real but pac was the realest having all dem hammers dont make him real. any nigga could buy some hammers to protect his fam that dont make him realer than the huey newton of this generation. t.i is a deep nigga sometimes but he aint got wat pac got i c some similarities but its like comparing al sharpton to dr.king.fighting againgst the gov,police, white amerikkka,sexism,racism n 4 the kids makes u real. anybody can do tough guy shit but then they fear the gov, police etc. its easy to shoot a black man that whites wanna c dead anyway n get away. but shot a cop n then id have respect 4 u word is tip is snitching too cops so idk how hes realer than pac or anyother rapper.pac was the realest n illest nigga ever but your opinion is ur opinion i hear u.

[Black Excellence]

tip is real but pac was the realest having all dem hammers dont make him real. any nigga could buy some hammers to protect his fam that dont make him realer than the huey newton of this generation. t.i is a deep nigga sometimes but he aint got wat pac got i c some similarities but its like comparing al sharpton to dr.king.fighting againgst the gov,police, white amerikkka,sexism,racism n 4 the kids makes u real. anybody can do tough guy shit but then they fear the gov, police etc. its easy to shoot a black man that whites wanna c dead anyway n get away. but shot a cop n then id have respect 4 u word is tip is snitching too cops so idk how hes realer than pac or anyother rapper.pac was the realest n illest nigga ever but your opinion is ur opinion i hear u.

that's total bullshit homie and you know it.